You can now pre-order The Host on DVD and Blu-Ray on Amazon in the US. The DVD is listed at $19.99 and the Blu-Ray is $24.99. If you order now and the prices go down, you will be charged the lowest amount. However, there is no release date yet! But if you want to be one of the first to own a personal copy, I guess the time to do it is now. We will keep you posted on a release date or any details on the actual DVD when it becomes available.

We missed the last round of behind the scenes photos that some of the actors shared with fans due to all the excitement of the release and the premiere. Lee Hardee (Aaron) shared a bunch more and Frances Fisher (Maggie) shared a couple more also. Stephenie Meyer, Boyd Holbrook, William Hurt, Frances Fisher, Saoirse Ronan, Mustafa Harris, Lee Hardee, Max Irons, and Diane Kruger are all seen in the photos below.

Irons revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he wasn’t sure how he felt about having the scene in the film where Jared hits Wanderer (in Melanie’s body) when she is first brought to the caves. He talks about how he could have intentionally messed the scene up until they cut it from the film, but that when it came time to film it, he understood more fully why it was an important moment for his character.

“I was not looking forward to that scene,” Irons tells THR. “I didn’t know if I wanted it in the film and I didn’t know if I liked it in the book – I didn’t know if it was necessary.”

“If you don’t like a scene, you can keep f—ing it up,” he confesses. “I could have done that if I wanted to, but I didn’t because it worked.”

“Obviously I didn’t hit her, obviously I don’t endorse that kind of thing,” he says, “but we shot it quite early on and it was sort of a microcosmic example of Melanie and Jared’s struggle. There are feelings of loss, rage, pure sadness, happiness to see her but confusion – a whole bunch of shit… it became an illuminating scene.”

Plus, he notes, “I knew that if I really hated the way it was being shot, I could say to Andrew, ‘Listen, we’ve got a problem here.’”

The interview includes reactions from Niccol and Ronan (Wanderer/Melanie) to Irons’ revelation, as well as a reassurance that, while Ronan was 17 during much of the filming, she was 18 before they filmed any of the intimate scenes. He also talks a little about what it was like having her father on set while filming some of the scenes between himself and Ronan.

The Host has officially exceeded its $40 million budget at the box office! This is thanks to the international portion of the box office which now sits at $21,600,000. The total box office for US and international is now $41,971,752.

Thanks to Russia, Australia, Brazil, Spain, and the U.K. who have the highest international box office numbers. You can see what your country brought in here.

Thanks to a couple of vigilant followers who alerted us to this change!

In the U.S. domestic box office for the second weekend The Host has been out, it placed #8 in the top 10, falling two spots from where it opened at #6. The film brought in an additional $5,198,615 over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It lost 51% of its audience compared to last weekend, although it still plays in the same number of theatres.

As of tonight, The Host has brought in $19,624,328 in the US and $10,700,000 internationally, bringing its 10 day total to $30,324,328.

It still has about $10 million to go before it breaks even with its reported budget of $40 million.